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How to Make simple Raspberry Viniagrette - Easily! With Step-by-step Directions, Photos, Ingredients, Recipe and Costs

How to Make simple Raspberry Viniagrette - Easily! With Step-by-step Directions, Photos, Ingredients, Recipe and Costs

Yield: 4 eight-ounce jars

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Making and canning your own Raspberry Vinaigrette salad dressing is
possible; if you follow these simple directions and understand the limitations
of home canning. For example, simple fruit vinaigrettes may be safely
caned at home, but dressings with oils, milks, creams, eggs, etc. cannot be
safely canned at home.

The key is you add the oil when you go to use each jar. Home
canning of foods with added vegetable or olive oils is dangerous, as it is a
perfect environment for botulism, so instead, we leave out the oil and add
as much oil to it when you are ready to open the jars and use the
vinaigrette!

Ingredients

2 cups of fresh or frozen raspberries

4 cups of red wine vinegar

zest of 1 lemon (or 3 tablespoons of lemon juice, if you are
zestless )

Ball jars (Grocery stores, like Publix, Kroger, Safeway carry them, as do some big box stores - about $7 per dozen 8
ounce
jars including the lids and rings)

Lids - thin, flat, round metal lids with
a gum binder that seals them against the top of the jar. They
may only be used once.

Rings - metal bands that secure the lids
to the jars. They may be reused many times.

Jar funnel ($2 at Target, other big box stores, and often grocery stores; and available online - see this page) or order it as part of the kit
with the jar grabber.

Jar grabber (to pick up the hot jars)- Big box stores and grocery stores sometimes carry them; and it is available online - see this page.
It's a tremendously useful to put jars in the canner and take the hot
jars out (without scalding yourself!). The kit sold below has everything
you need, and at a pretty good price

Directions - Step by Step

Step 1 - Pick the berries! (or buy them already picked)

It's fun to go pick your own and you can obviously get better quality ones!

I prefer to grow my own; which is really easy - but that does take some space and time.

As mentioned in the Ingredients section; you may use frozen berries (those without syrup or added sugar); which is especially useful if you want to make some
Raspberry Vinaigrette in December to give away at Christmas!

How much fruit?

Raspberry Vinaigrette can be made in any size batch, so this can be scaled
up or down! This recipe yields about 2 pints (4 eight-ounce jars)

Step 2 - Wash the jars and lids

Now's a good time to get the jars ready, so you won't be rushed later. The dishwasher is fine for the jars; especially if it has a "sanitize" cycle, the water bath processing will sanitize them as well as the contents! If you don't have a dishwasher with a sanitize cycle, you can wash the containers in hot, soapy water and rinse, then sanitize the jars by boiling them 10 minutes, and keep the jars in hot water until they are used.

Put the lids into a pan of hot, but not quite boiling water (that's what the manufacturer's recommend) for 10 minutes, and use the magnetic "lid lifter wand" to pull them out. Leave the jars in the dishwasher on "heated dry" until you are ready to use them. Keeping them hot will prevent the jars from breaking when you fill them with the hot
Raspberry Vinaigrette.

Step 3 -Wash the fruit!

I'm sure you can figure out how to
rinse the
raspberries in plain cold water.

Step 4 - Crush the fruit

Then you just mush them up a bit - not completely
crushed, but mostly. It's really done just to help measure the raspberries
accurately. You'll need about 6 cups, mushed up.

If you want seedless
vinaigrette, you may need to run the crushed berries through a Foley food mill (at right). They cost about $30.

It works well for blackberries,
ok for raspberries, and no one tries to remove strawberry seeds (they're so small). I suppose you could train monkeys to pick them out, but they'd probably form a trade labor union. But I digress..

One tip is to heat the raspberries up until almost boiling, in a pan with about 1
cup of added apple juice.
The warm berries are easier to separate from their seeds.

The Villaware / Roma strainers have smaller mesh screens that
work better for raspberries.

As you can see, it is really effective at removing just the seeds:

Step 5
- Optional: Puree the chipotle in adobe sauce with the garlic and vinegar

If
you want a bit of spicy flavor, puree
the 2 tablespoons of Chipotle Peppers in adobe sauce with 2 tablespoons
minced garlic and 1/3 cup red wine vinegar in a blender, food processor or
electric chopper, then add to the raspberries and vinegar in Step 7.

Step 6 - Get the lids warming in hot (but not boiling) water

Lids: put the lids into a pan of hot water for at least several minutes; to soften up the gummed surface and clean the lids.
Do the same with the jars (just put them in the canner until you are ready to
fill them).

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Step
7 - Mix the berries with the vinegar and heat to a full boil

Stir the raspberries,
vinegar (or remaining vinegar), lemon zest or juice and blended chipotle mix
(if you chose to add it) in a big pot on the stove over medium to high heat
(stir often enough to prevent burning). Just bring the mix to a boil, then
remove from the heat.

Step 8 - Fill the jars and put the lid and rings on

Fill them to within 1/4-inch of the top, wipe any spilled
sauce off the top, seat the lid and tighten the ring around them. Then put the filled jars into the canner!

This is where the jar tongs come in really handy!

Step 9 - Process the jars in the boiling water bath

Keep the jars covered with at least 2 inches of water. Keep the water boiling.
Boil them for 5 minutes. See the chart below for altitude adjustment to processing times, if you are not in the sea level to 1,000ft above sea level range.

Note: Some people don't even boil the jars; they just ladle it hot into hot jars, put the lids and rings on and invert them
- no credible authority (FDA, USDA, major universities food sciences
departments, recommend this. Putting the jars in the boiling water bath REALLY helps to reduce spoilage! To me, it makes little sense to put all the working into making the
sauce and then not to process the jars to be sure they don't spoil!

Recommended process time for Raspberry Vinaigrette in a boiling water canner.

Process Time at Altitudes of

Style of Pack

Jar Size

0 - 1,000 ft

1,001 - 6,000 ft

Above 6,000 ft

Hot

Half-pintsor Pints

10 min

15

20

Step 10 - Remove and cool the jars - Done!

Lift the jars out of the water with your jar lifter tongs and let them cool without touching or bumping them in a draft-free place (usually takes overnight) You can then remove the rings if you like, but if you leave them on, at least loosen them quite a bit, so they don't rust in place due to trapped moisture. Once the jars are cool, you can check that they are sealed verifying that the lid has been sucked down. Just press in the center, gently, with your finger. If it pops up and down (often making a popping sound), it is not sealed. If you put the jar in the refrigerator right away, you can still use it. Some people replace the lid and reprocess the jar, then that's a bit iffy. If you heat the contents back up, re-jar them (with a new lid) and the full time in the canner, it's usually ok.

Once cooled, they're ready to store. I find they last up to 18 months. They still are safe to eat
after that, but the flavor and texture aren't as good. So eat them in the first
year or so after you prepare them! Another trick is to keep the uncooked berries or other fruit in the freezer and make and can the
sauce as needed, so it's always fresh.

Other Equipment:

From left to right:

Jar lifting tongsto pick up hot jars

Lid lifter- to remove lids from the potof boiling water (sterilizing )

Lid- disposable - you may onlyuse them once

Ring- holds the lids on the jar until afterthe jars cool - then you don't need them

** - This assumes you already have the pots, pans, ladles, and reusable equipment. Note that you can reuse the jars and reduce the cost further; just buy new lids (the rings are reusable, but the flat lids are not)!

Can't find the equipment? We ship to all 50 states!

As my jars are cooling after i take them out of the canner, they sometimes
make a popping or hissing noise. Is this normal and safe?Yes, the lids are designed to flex and that's actually a key selling point.
You can tell if a jar hasn't sealed properly (after it has cooled completely) if
the lid flexes and makes a popping sound when you press the center of the lid
with your finger. The popping sounds while it is cooling is the lid being
sucked down by the vacuum that is forming inside the jar - which a normal part
of the sealing process. Hissing sounds are usually just escaping steam or
hot water evaporating on hot surfaces, also normal!

Why should cooked jelly be made in small batches?
If a larger quantity of juice is used, it will be necessary to boil it longer thus causing loss of flavor, darkening of jelly, and toughening of jelly. It really doesn't work. Trust me; I've tried many times!

Can I use frozen berries instead of fresh?Yep! Raspberries can be particularly hard to find fresh and are expensive! Frozen berries work just fine, and measure the same. Just be sure to get the loose, frozen whole fruit; not those that have been mushed up or frozen in a sugar syrup!

What do I do if there's mold on my jellied fruit product?
Discard
Raspberry Vinaigrettes and jellies with mold on them. The mold could be producing a mycotoxin (poisonous substance that can make you sick). USDA and microbiologists recommend against scooping out the mold and using the remaining
sauce or jelly.

Could you tell me why my SAUCE is thicker then the store bought?
The natural pectin content of fresh fruit varies, so it is possible the the
variety of fruit that you used has more natural pectin, making it thicker. But
there's an easy answer - ju

st add less pectin next time. You'll have to
experiment to find how much pectin makes the consistency you like. Most people
seem to like their sauce thick, so you may to need to only use 3/4 of a pack of
pectin per batch.

What is the best way to deseed berries for sauce? I heard a few different
ways. A food mill, a ricer, and cheese cloth.For large seeds (blackberries, apples, and larger) I find a Foley Food Mill
works best - it's certainly faster and easier than the other methods. Raspberry
and smaller seeds are a real pain. They get stuck in (and clog) or pass through
a food mill. The Villaware mill has a smaller screen that works great for them!
See this page for more information
about both strainers. Cheesecloth and jelly strainers are messy, take forever and you
lose most of the pulp. For these, I find a metal sieve or colander (with small
enough holes) and a spatula to help mush them and push the pulp through, is
best. Also, heating the mushed up berries almost to boiling really helps to
separate the seeds and pulp.

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